If you are one of those that depends upon a scanner for your daily work, and you want to handle this task using the Linux operating system, you are in luck. In the past, Linux has had some serious issues with scanning tools. When USB scanners replaced the old parallel port scanners it seemed nothing [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Nov 1st, 2009
- Comments: None
Gmail at your fingertips on the Linux desktop
When Gmail first came out I wasn’t a fan. But after a year of use I have found Google Mail to be a very valuable tool. Because I use Gmail mostly for work-related issues, I do not always like to check it within a browser. Instead I use various applications that enable me to have [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 30th, 2009
- Comments: 10
The new Ubuntu Software Center
You may remember my mention of the Ubuntu Software Center in my article “Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview“. Well, Karmic Koala is now officially Ubuntu 9.10 and is on the streets. I have installed the release and am as pleased as I expected I would be. One aspect of 9.10 that I was most interested in [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 29th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Set up a Linux media server
Do you have multiple machines around your house that would like to share a centralized server for multi-media? Having such a server for music allows for consolidation, ease of use, and space saving on client PCs. Of course to many users, the idea of setting up a multi-media server sounds like it would be a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 28th, 2009
- Comments: 7
Xbox Media Center on Linux
The Xbox Media Center arrived in 2004 and became popular so quickly that it became clear more ports would be needed. So the XBMC team allowed this tool to evolve into a cross platform media center that would run on just about anything you can think of. But, of course, the purpose of this article [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 27th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Konqueror tips and tricks
If you are familar with KDE you know Konqueror. Konqueror used to be one of the finest file managers on the PC desktop – period. But now KDE has migrated toward a simpler, more user-friendly file manager (Dolphin) and pushed Konqueror to serve as a web-browser only. That does not mean Konqueror can not be [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Oct 26th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Stop SPAM in Postfix with Spamassassin
So you have your Ubuntu server up and running with a Postfix mail server (see “Install Postfix for reliable email delivery“). You have also set up Postfix for antivirus with the help of ClamAV (see “Add antivirus to Post fix with ClamAV“). Finally you have Postfix set up to relay (see “Mail relaying made simple [...]

